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Higgs boson having an identity crisis
New Scientist ^ | December 13, 2012 | Michael Slezak

Posted on 12/26/2012 7:34:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv

...The latest results from the ATLAS detector at the LHC suggest that when we look at its decay into two photons, we find that the new boson's mass is about 3 gigaelectronvolts greater than when calculated from its decay into particles called Z bosons.

Albert De Roeck, one of the key Higgs hunters at ATLAS's sibling detector, CMS, finds this puzzling. "The results are barely consistent," he says...

The ATLAS team also announced new results from analysing the Higgs boson's rate of decay into pairs of photons. The standard model of particle physics predicts exactly how often this should happen. Intriguingly, when early hints of a new particle were upgraded to a "discovery" in July, it was doing that more often than the standard model says it should. But there was not enough data to say whether this was a fluke.

If the Higgs really decays into photons at too fast a rate, it would offer some clues as to where to look for new physics that might explain mysteries like dark matter, gravity and the dearth of antimatter in the universe.

Today, physicists announced that the excess has not gone away -- but it also does not look much more likely to be a genuine event, even though physicists have now seen twice the number of decays.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: higgsboson; physics; stringtheory; thereisnohiggs

IOW, there is no Higgs, or at the very least, they haven't found it. From Scientific American:
The latest results from the Atlas experiment indicate that there may be two different Higgs bosons -- one that weighs 123.5 GeV (in blue) and another that's 126.6 GeV (in red). [Have Scientists Found 2 Different Higgs Bosons?]

Have Scientists Found 2 Different Higgs Bosons? by Michael Moyer December 14, 2012

1 posted on 12/26/2012 7:34:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/26/2012 7:35:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv
3 gigaelectronvolts

1.21 jigawatts, Marty

3 posted on 12/26/2012 7:37:35 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Well, to be pedantic, 3 gigaelectronvolts ≈ 1.34 × 10−13 watt hours. Not a lot of energy . . .
4 posted on 12/26/2012 7:42:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

And that’s why CERN has not yet invented time travel. They clearly need more power.


5 posted on 12/26/2012 7:44:59 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
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To: SunkenCiv

While I greatly appreciate the preliminary Atlas/maps for 2011 and 2012, detailing Mr. Boson’s probable home location, does it or does it not have a registered weapon there?


6 posted on 12/26/2012 7:45:58 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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No sign of the Higgs boson
New Scientist | December 5, 2001 (note the year) | Eugenie Samuel
Posted on April 10, 2007 11:48:56 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1814966/posts


7 posted on 12/26/2012 7:50:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

At last we have a crude drawing of Ms. Higgs bosom but I feel a little voyeuristic looking at it.


8 posted on 12/26/2012 7:59:30 PM PST by BipolarBob (Bitter, clinging to my Bible and AR-15.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Nothing like a negative result on an experiment to make the theory move in a correct direction.

/johnny

9 posted on 12/26/2012 8:08:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: BipolarBob; dagogo redux; ClearCase_guy

Where’s Moe Howard when I need him?


10 posted on 12/26/2012 8:11:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: dagogo redux

If you know the position of the registered weapon you’ll never know the speed of it and vice versa!


11 posted on 12/26/2012 8:25:37 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.......


12 posted on 12/26/2012 8:44:02 PM PST by raygunfan
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To: SunkenCiv
The scientists need moar money!

Moar research monies PLZ...

13 posted on 12/26/2012 8:44:41 PM PST by GraceG
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To: SunkenCiv

Isn`t the boson in Germany?
Didn`t I read somewhere the boson got re-introduced to Germany after 1,000 years?


14 posted on 12/26/2012 9:06:17 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Bosin?? Boson //Bosun?)
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To: raygunfan

Am I going to Hell if I ask how?


15 posted on 12/26/2012 9:32:56 PM PST by DManA
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To: bunkerhill7

Until last week I thought the Higgs Boson served under the command of Captain Higgs.


16 posted on 12/27/2012 7:12:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping. Happy New Year!


17 posted on 12/30/2012 2:16:38 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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